PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee today announced that Meals on Wheels Rhode Island will receive $150,000 in funding from AmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service and volunteerism. The award will support 150 new AmeriCorps Senior volunteers in Providence.
"We're grateful for this...
PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee joined by Lt. Governor Sabina Matos, Juana Matias, Regional Administrator of the Office of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Josh Saal, Deputy Secretary of Commerce for Housing, Eileen Hayes, President & CEO, Amos House and housing and community partners...
PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee today issued the following statement regarding last night's Senate vote confirming Maria E. Cimini as Director of the Office of Healthy Aging (OHA).
"Maria Cimini has the compassion to advocate for older Rhode Islanders and adults with disabilities, the skill...
PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee, RIHousing, Amos House, and the RI Association of Realtors announced a new landlord challenge Monday to provide permanent housing for over 150 households who have been experiencing homelessness and staying in hotel shelters since the onset of the pandemic.
"A...
PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee, along with Colonel James Manni, today held a swearing-in ceremony for the new Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police, Colonel Darnell S. Weaver.
"It is my honor to swear-in Colonel Darnell S. Weaver as Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police,"
PROVIDENCE – Governor Dan McKee and Lieutenant Governor Sabina Matos announced today that Quahog Week – the annual event spotlighting Rhode Island's favorite bivalve as well as the most economically important resource harvested from Narragansett Bay – will run May 15-21. Now in its sixth year,...
PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee was joined by First Lady Susan McKee, Lt. Governor Sabina Matos, Rhode Island Department of Transportation Director Peter Alviti, Rhode Island Public Transit Authority CEO Scott Avedisian, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management Acting Director Terry...
WHEREAS, each year, Earth Day serves as a reminder of the value of our state's precious natural resources and helps mark the progress made by Rhode Island in protecting them; and
WHEREAS, since the first Earth Day was enacted in 1970 efforts to improve air and water quality, clean up...
PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee released the following statement in response to today's jobs report, which showed the state's unemployment rate has fallen below the national unemployment rate for the first time since February 2021:
"Today's jobs report is good news and continues to show...
PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee was joined by Lt. Governor Sabina Matos, General Treasurer Seth Magaziner, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Paul Suttell, state agencies and stakeholders in law enforcement, the judiciary, and advocates to launch the Governor's Domestic Violence Working Group.
